H. L. D. Mahindapala On May 26, 2009 when the UNHRC met for the first time to consider the post-war situation in Sri Lanka Ms. Navi Pillay was busy elsewhere. Because she could not attend she sent a recorded message to UNHRC. It was pre-recorded on May 25, 2009, which was only eight days after […]

Shenali D Waduge Separatism and TNA go hand in hand. Its election manifestos of 2001, 2004, 2010 and now 2013 see no major difference. There is no major difference in the fact that Tamils have kept on voting for the TNA despite its allegiance to the LTTE. What must be also reiterated is that though […]

Insight By Sunil Kumar September 12th 2013 It all points to the decorum and pragmatism of President Mahinda Rajapaksa who has made a statement on an issue which he has probably witheld all along towards maintaining certain related protocols yet endorsed by many discerning Sri Lankans that the TNA are indeed aspiring Tamil Tiger activists […]

Dilrook Kannangara UNHRC is under de facto Tamil rule and so is India that bends to every Tamil demand. Next year being an election year where the ruling coalition struggles to maintain its shrinking power, Indian rulers will fall for Tamil demands particularly leading up to the UNHRC sessions when another resolution against Sri Lanka […]

Insight By Sunil Kumar September 9th 2013 It appears that the UN is either a bunch of mixed up deadbeats with agendas often laced heavily in bias or circumspect myopia starting from the top with secretary general Ban Ki Moon, human rights ambassador Naveen Pillai and now an associate spokesperson by name of Farhan Haq […]

P.A.Samaraweera, Australia Callum Macrae from the UK Channel 4 News, produced a documentary highlighting so called ‘war crimes’ in Sri Lanka during the war in 2009. The feature length documentary titled, ‘ No Fire Zone’ depicted Eelam war iv through a doctored film that it was violence against the Tamils. In 2011 he directed another […]

Jay J In Sri Lanka Muslims cannot complain because…. 1. The Muslims are not indigenous people of Sri Lanka. 2. The Muslims came as traders/visitors and NEVER owned land in Sri Lanka until after the British. Anyone in doubt can read Robert Knox 3. The Muslims follow Islam and Islam’s holy text refers to Buddhists, […]

Dr. Tilak Fernando I am very grateful to Peter Wijesinghe who contacted me recently having read some of my ƒ¢¢”š¬’Life Abroad’ columns, as I consider him as an encyclopaedia of Sri Lankans and their activities in London considering his knowledge, experience and the vivid memory over six decades of life in the UK. Peter qualifies […]

Sent by: Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai, Vanderwert Place, Dehiwela Someone has decided to put up a No U turn board on Galle road in Dehiwela where the Waidya road joins the Galle road. Even after 8pm when the opposite lane is almost emptyƒ”š‚  the motorists travelling from Wellewathe side ƒ”š‚ have to go all the way […]

By R. Madduma Bandara The Metropolitan Police of London were embarrassed today (11 September) by mistakenly publishing Tamil Tiger flag in its web site in section under ƒ¢¢”š¬’Information about contact points’ (http://www.met.police.uk/contact_points/). This particular web page contains the key information about the new Met contact points translated into few languages such as Bengali (Bangladesh), Lithuanian, […]